Lovers of the strange, do conventional art museums fall short for you? Are you looking for something more than paintings and statues? If so, you are in luck, because in Valencia we have a few museums, which may not be so well known, but which are out of the norm and worth a visit.
You will find torture devices, tin soldiers, salt and pepper shakers or porcelain. And is that conventional art is fine, but sometimes we need to discover completely different things and we would not have imagined that there was a museum dedicated to that.
And this is what being Valencian is all about, discovering every day more and more places in our city and community as if we were traveling, because Valencia never ends and we still have a lot to explore.
Here we bring you the most curious museums of the Valencian Community:
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Rice Museum
Rice is part of our culture. Paella or baked rice are part of our identity as Valencians, but not only this, it has always been an essential part of our way of working and relating to the environment.
That is why we have a museum in the city devoted entirely to this food and, as it could not be otherwise, it is located in an old mill, the Serra mill.
There you can discover in detail how is the process of harvesting, rice collection and industrial processing, ranging from cleaning to bagging, through the whitening and sorting by size.
📍Location: Carrer del Rosari, 3, Valencia
Price : 2€.
Museum of Salt and Pepper Shakers.
This museum is so strange that it is the only one of its kind in the whole of Europe. Here you will find more than 20,000 salt and pepper shakers from all over the world.
These objects date from the 19th century to the present day. Really, it is a great exhibition of art and culture, as they are so everyday objects that in each of them hides a story behind.
In this museum of Valencia we will find authentic jewels and it is hard to imagine that people had them in their houses to dress salads.
📍Location: Avda. de Alicante, 2, El Castell de Guadalest
Price : 3€.
L’Iber de Soldaditos de Plomo Museum.
It’s not that it’s one of the largest museums dedicated to this subject, it’s that it’s the largest in the world dedicated to tin soldiers. It has more than 900,000 pieces on display and a million and a half in the collection.
Here we will see thousands of small works of art made in detail and painted with millimetric precision. The museum has 15 rooms where the miniatures are arranged by theme and there are recreations of Tirant Lo Blanc or the Battle of Almansa.
In the museum L’Iber of Valencia we can know our history through these miniatures.
📍Location: Carrer dels Cavallers, 20-22, Valencia
Price : 8€.
Lladró Museum, The City of Porcelain
The famous ceramic house Lladró has a museum where we can see exposed some of his best works. Here you can visit its two permanent collections, one of historical porcelain, where we can see works withdrawn from the catalog of the company, but with a great value, and another of pictorial.
In addition, if you prefer, you can take a guided tour in this curious museum in Valencia.
📍Location: Carretera de Alboraya, s/n, Valencia
Medieval Historical Museum (and of torture).
Do we really know how barbaric we have become as a civilization? In the medieval historical museum of Guadalest we can see how the elements of torture and capital punishment were used in the Middle Ages.
In addition, the enclave where it is located is great to get into the environment. Guadalest, with its castle, immediately transports us to this distant era.
In the museum of torture in Valencia we will find a basement and three floors with more than 70 pieces that were used to torture prisoners.
📍Location: Carrer Honda, 6, Guadalest
Price : 4€.
Valencian Paper Museum
Banyeres de Mariola is a municipality with a long paper tradition. For that reason, there is the only museum of the Valencian Community dedicated to paper.
During our visit we can see the workshop where the paper is made by hand, learn about its origins or see a model of a paper machine.
In addition, there is also a collection of festive costumes made entirely of paper that is worth visiting.
📍Location: Park Villa Rosario, 2, Banyeres de Mariola
Price : 1,50€.
Almírez Museum (museum of the mortars).
This curious museum is dedicated to mortars, mills, almízeretes, etc., of all times and cultures, from prehistoric times to the present. In the Almírez museum we will be able to go through the history of gastronomy from one of its main working elements.
In addition, we can explore all the facets of this object, not only the everyday, but also the industrial or learn about its use as a decorative object and even as a toy.
📍Location: Carrer dels Mártirs, 5, Les Coves de Vinromà